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"An unputdownable thriller with an "oh shit!" beginning for readers of Ruth Ware and Lucy Foley that finds Jamie and Victoria, a married couple expecting their first baby, locked inside the guesthouse they were visiting on vacation just as Victoria feels contractions starting"-- Provided by publisher. Jamie and Victoria are off for a last quick vacation before the arrival of their first baby. The remote country guest house is miles from the distractions...

"Barely surviving her imprisonment in Oromondo and scarred by its Fire Spirit, Cerulia is taken to a recovery house in Wyeland to heal from the trauma. As she wrestles with her destiny and now questions whether she should even attempt to win her throne, Cerulia discovers that not all scars are visible"-- Provided by publisher.

Charli sits in a jail cell regretting how she disregarded the teachings of her faith when she broke things off with Jack, married a man who abandoned her while pregnant, and took a banking job that culminated in her being accused of embezzlement.

One morning, in the dead of winter, three German soldiers head out into the frozen Polish countryside. They have been charged by their commanders to track down and bring back for execution 'one of them' - a Jew. Having flushed out a young man hiding in the woods, they decide to rest in an abandoned house before continuing their journey back to the camp. As they prepare food, they are joined by a passing Pole whose virulent anti-Semitism adds tension...

"When enemies lurk in the shadows, nowhere is safe. Chris Wren stopped three devastating terror attacks. His reward? A bag over his head and a one-way trip to a CIA black site. Now labeled a traitor, Wren is helpless while his closest friends are hunted by a killer who knows his darkest secrets. It starts with the brutal decapitation of a trusted police colleague, sending a clear message: no one connected to Wren is safe. The threat escalates when...

Hasan and his son in Lebanon have dreamed of American freedom, but when they arrive they are imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay, accused of terrorism. Their only hope is their defense lawyer, JAG Officer Matt Davis, who believes his clients are innocent but who faces monumental opposition.

When a federal judge and his secretary fail to appear for a scheduled trial and panicked clerks call for an FBI investigation, a harrowing murder case ensues and culminates in the imprisonment of a lawyer who imparts the story of who killed the judge and why. Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarkable that in the history of this country only...

Wealthy widow Blaine Avery is already suspected by her neighbors of the mysterious death of her husband. Now the savagely mutilated corpse of a local girl is discovered in the woods nearby--and Blaine must pull out all the stops to find the real killer and prove her innocence.

A prosecuting attorney Ted Jaffe who, twelve years after condemning a convicted murderer to death row, returns to the courtroom to save that same man's life.

"If a relationship is a secret you shouldn't be in it... Mead House was once our childhood home. Despite my fears, I always knew we would have to return to face our past. Back to the place where, as carefree teenagers, we lost our elder sister in the most brutal of circumstances. As executors of our grandmother's will, my twin brother, Ollie, and I needed to empty the house for resale. What I didn't expect to discover was my dead sister's secret journal...